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poison pill
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Poison pill
Anti-takeover device that gives a prospective acquiree's shareholders the right to buy shares of the firm or shares of anyone who acquires the firm at a deep discount to their fair market value. Named after the cyanide pill that secret government agents are said to be instructed to swallow if capture is imminent.
poison pill
An antitakeover tactic in which warrants are issued to a firm's stockholders, giving them the right to purchase shares of the firm's stock at a bargain price in the event that a suitor hostile to management acquires a stipulated percentage of the firm's stock. The poison pill is intended to make the takeover so expensive that any attempt to take control will be abandoned. See also flip-over pill, Jonestown defense, macaroni defense, suicide pill.


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